I had to write a paper for history class. So I went to the library and picked up three huge books (more then 2000 pages) that the professor told us to use. After that I went to another library and found one 50 page book that covered the entire thing. IMMD
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… In high school, I used to use children’s books for BS essays. That’s where you find all the information with none of the nonsense. – Buzzkill
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It’s like reading “Atlas Shrugged” and then “The Anthem” afterwards.
its like reading ‘cliff notes’ msr dumas-every generation thinks they invented it.
WIN — as long as it was still an A.
‘And when I wrote my bibliography, he found out I didn’t use the books he told us to, after all…’
No no, see, you read the short book to get the material, then you find similar passages in the big books for actual citation.
And that is more or less the sum total of what I learned as in the course of getting my B.A.
Nono, you read the wikipedia page, then pretend you used the big books as sources.
Amanda wins.
And you never learned the value of assessing multiple interpretations and forming your own opinion. Well done. You’ll be receiving your membership card to the Mindless Masses club shortly.
Paper writing in college is all about the art of BS, my friend.
True!
Genius is the ability to BS convincingly, and to actually get it right more often than not.
Genius is knowing the difference between than and then when writing your paper…
Looks like you’re no genius THEN!
Sooo true…
And that’s why I have my Masters and PhD acceptance letter and none of you do. If you don’t find what you’re studying interesting enough to research then don’t waste other peoples time doing it. No one’s going to be impressed when you graduate and don’t know shit.
…so there!
I’ll second this (minus the letters–I just have an AA-social sciences atm)
Kitteh with Master’s degree sez:
You don’t necessarily have to KNOW. You just have to be aware of what you don’t know, be able to extrapolate what you DO know to figure out the stuff you don’t, and know where to find the stuff you don’t know when you need it.
And that’s different from actually doing research how…?
In high school, I used to use children’s books for BS essays. That’s where you find all the information with none of the nonsense.
You know this leads me to ask a question… why oh why would you ever bother reading a huge textbook when a small one can cover the material without giving you usless information?
Because it’s not useless information. I feel bad for people who don’t like reading- there is so much information and it can help you in so many ways- even if it’s not for that particular assignment. You can reference it later for other subjects, or recall a case study and use it in conversations (like real grown-ups!), or use it as a start point for other research. The first thing I did in school was read all my books. While the rest of the class was whining about dragging themselves through the “boring” book- I had already memorized it enough to answer the questions so I could read my own books I brought for fun. I :::heart::: reading.
Join the club, we have jackets, nice lamps and cookies to nibble on while reading !!
There is a difference between reading novels and loving it and reading a Biology or Chemistry textbook and loving it.
I read archaeological reports and history books for fun.
You are so special, arent you?
to quote “that’s why I have my Masters and PhD acceptance letter and none of you do.”
so me thinks (s)he’s all that
A Masters Degree is a licence to brag and flaunt superiority.
Get over yourself. Twenty minutes in a competitive PhD program will cut you down to size.
Aww. There there.
Really, after the amount of hard work anyone puts in to a postgrad degree they have a right to be proud of their accomplishment. If you don’t like it, get one and say so with some authority.
Kitteh with Master’s degree sez:
Didn’t you read the fine print?
“Licensee accepts all responsibility for any resentment incurred.”
LOL I read meteorology books for fun, so I’m up there with you
Biology and astronomy over here…
The United States of America is made fun of for receiving an education that barely covers the breadth of a subject and then you read this crap of someone celebrating their ignorance.
Have you ever considered that it may be true in other countries also, they just aren’t as “big” as the USA media wise?
Name one. America is a laughing stock in universities the world over. And yes, I’ve been to universities in three different countries who all share this opinion.
America is a laughingstock in universities in America. Hating on the US is a longstanding academic passtime/tradition. When people stop coming from all over the globe to attend our overpriced Universities, then I’ll be worried.
Universities in three countries, and only a Master’s?
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Easy enough to do an exchange in undergrad and your master’s at a different university, no?
Exactly. I don’t think that guy is overly familiar with how universities work. My home uni is partnered with about 20 international ones to offer individual course exchanges.
Ah well. His loss (and apparently he’s a bit bitter about it).
Other countries have people who celebrate their ignorance, but in far too many, their education systems are leaps and bounds ahead of ours.
The basis of education is knowing your ignorance and working to remedy the situation.
This is true. I don’t mean to come off as cynical, but, well, I am.
Also, far be it from me to defend ignorance over education, but the fact is that more often than not, school doesn’t prepare us for the real world (particularly the working world) at ALL. In academia, you get to the top by studying and citing your sources. In most careers, you get to the top by knowing what bullsh1t to use, with whom, and when. Real life is a lot more like politics than school, sadly.
Some teachers also require you to do this thing called ‘thinking’ or ‘critical thinking’ which DOES help in the real world.
Yeah… Which working world are you living in? Sure, I never did well in history, but math, statistics, and computer science? I write software for a living.
What academia is really about is practicing research skills. And writing papers and citing sources… A lot of companies in the technical fields will give employees special recognition for publishing research papers.
Which is why I’m in the tech sector in the first place
I have sub-par bullsh1t skills, but I can write a mean paper.
A bunch of people read something that happened to me and took it way too seriously. IMMD
I know exactly what you mean >.> When I was in college, I just referenced a few large books, but then got all the information I actually used online.
You’re in college and still haven’t figured out the difference between “then” and “than”?